Motivational Quotes

Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

11.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

13.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

14.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

20.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

25.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

27.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

31.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

33.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

35.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

43.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle